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What do Biodiversity Scholars Search For? Identifying high-level entities for biological data Felicitas Löffler Heinz-Nixdorf-Endowed Chair for Distributed Information Systems Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany Co-Aut Co utho hors: Claas-Thido Pfaff, Naouel Karam, David Fichtmüller, Friederike Klan 1 Worksh shop, V Vien enna, 2 22.10. 0.2017 2017 Funded by

Motivation S4biodiv Workshop, Vienna, 22.10.2017 | What Do Biodiversity Scholars Search For? | Felicitas Löffler 2

Motivation <dataset> <dc:title> Hydrochemistry of water samples during METEOR cruise M90 </dc:title> <dc:creator> Stramma, Lothar </dc:creator> <dc:creator> Lohmann, Martina </dc:creator> <principalInvestigator> Lohmann, Martina </principalInvestigator> <dc:publisher> PANGAEA </dc:publisher> <dataCenter> PANGAEA: Data Publisher for Earth &amp; Environmental Science </dataCenter> <dc:date> 2016-02-01 </dc:date> <dc:type> Dataset </dc:type> <dc:format> text/tab-separated-values, 20101 data points </dc:format> <dc:identifier> doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.857751 </dc:identifier> <parentIdentifier> doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.860361 </parentIdentifier> <dc:language> en </dc:language> <dc:rights> CC-BY: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported </dc:rights> <dc:relation> Stramma, Lothar (2013): Oxygen and trace gases in the tropical southeastern Pacific - Cruise No. M90 - October 28-November 28, 2012 Cristobal (Panama) - Callao (Peru). METEOR-Berichte, DFG-Senatskommission für Ozeanographie, M90, 40 pp, doi:10.2312/cr_m90 </dc:relation> ... </dataset> What? Who? When? Where? Why? How? S4biodiv Workshop, Vienna, 22.10.2017 | What Do Biodiversity Scholars Search For? | Felicitas Löffler 3

Motivation & Research Question Can i interests b be cl e classifie fied i into broad ca categories that a allow ow linkage w with o ontol olog ogies es? S4biodiv Workshop, Vienna, 22.10.2017 | What Do Biodiversity Scholars Search For? | Felicitas Löffler 4

Our Idea Workshops with Search Questions Ecologists ??? S4biodiv Workshop, Vienna, 22.10.2017 | What Do Biodiversity Scholars Search For? | Felicitas Löffler 5

Workshops with Ecologists Ten workshops with 35 Ecologists from iDiv (German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research) Essen enti tial A Annotati tion Schem ema fo for Ecolog ology ( y (EASE) Time me (e.g., date, time, timezone) Orga ganism (e.g, species) Spac ace (e.g, bounding box, coodinates) Pro rocess (e.g., processes, objects and interactions) Sphere (e.g., pedosphere, atmosphere) Met ethod (e.g., setup of gradients) Biome me (e.g., zone, land use) Chemic ical al (e.g., elements, compounds) S4biodiv Workshop, Vienna, 22.10.2017 | What Do Biodiversity Scholars Search For? | Felicitas Löffler 6

Search Questions Extrac action ion of of noun en entiti ties in searc rch and resera rach ??? ques estions (184) 84) gathered ed in thre ree biodiver ersity projects ts Do butterflies occur on calcareous grassland? Organism Environment Organism Method Environment Data Type Quality & Phenotype Location Process Time Event Person & Organization Anatomical Entity Human Intervention Material & Substance S4biodiv Workshop, Vienna, 22.10.2017 | What Do Biodiversity Scholars Search For? | Felicitas Löffler 7

Consolidation ??? Quality & Organism Environment Process Phenotype Material & Anatomical Event Method Substance Entity Person & Human Location Time Organization Intervention S4biodiv Workshop, Vienna, 22.10.2017 | What Do Biodiversity Scholars Search For? | Felicitas Löffler 8

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